List of people who supported eugenics
This is a list of people who ever supported eugenics. This list does not include anyone already known to support:
- genocide
- Nazism
- racism
- slavery
This list is sorted by date of birth.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.
List
- Francis Galton[1]
- Alexander Graham Bell[1]
- Theodore Roosevelt[1]
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.[2]
- John Maynard Keynes[2]
- E. Franklin Frazier[2]
- Woodrow Wilson[2]
- Clarence Darrow[2]
- Helen Keller[1][3]
- H.G. Wells[1][4]
- Alexis Carrel[1]
- Charles Lindbergh[1]
- George Bernard Shaw[1]
- Marie Stopes[5][6][7]
- William Beverley[5]
- Bertrand Russell[5]
- Winston Churchill[8][1]
- Margaret Sanger[9][10]
- Norman Haire
- Havelock Ellis
- Herbert Hoover
- George Bernard Shaw
- John Maynard Keynes
- John Harvey Kellogg
- Robert Andrews Millikan[11]
- Sidney Webb[12][13][14]
- W. E. B. Du Bois[15][2]
- William Inge (priest)[16]
- James Peile[16]
- Patrick Joseph Hayes[16]
Post World War II
World War II presented some anomalies with respect to eugenics. See also liberal eugenics.
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Archbold, Matthew (November 14, 2014). "7 Beloved Famous People Who Were Wildly Pro-Eugenics". National Catholic Register. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Ramsey, Heather (July 10, 2015). "10 Widely Admired People Who Supported Eugenics". Listverse. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
- ↑ Pernick, M S (November 1997). "Eugenics and public health in American history.". American Journal of Public Health. 87 (11): 1767-1772. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
- ↑ Jacky Turner, Animal Breeding, Welfare and Society Routledge, 2010. ISBN 1844075893, (p.296).
- 1 2 3 Baker, Rob (March 18, 2015). "Top Ten Unlikely and Surprising Eugenicists". Flashback. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
- ↑ Soloway, R. A. (1996). “Marie Stopes and The English Birth Control Movement”. “Marie Stopes and The English Birth Control Movement”. London: The Galton Institute. Robert A. Peel, editor.
- ↑ Rose, J. (1993). Marie Stopes and the Sexual Revolution. London: Faber and Faber Limited.
- ↑ "Winston Churchill and Eugenics". The Churchill Centre and Museum. 31 May 2009. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
- ↑ Margaret Sanger (the founder of Planned Parenthood), quoted in Katz, Esther; Engelman, Peter (2002). The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press. p. 319. ISBN 978-0-252-02737-6.
Our ... campaign for Birth Control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical in ideal with the final aims of Eugenics
- ↑ Franks, Angela (2005). Margaret Sanger's eugenic legacy. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-7864-2011-7.
... her commitment to eugenics was constant ... until her death
- ↑ "Judgment At Pasadena", Washington Post, 16 March 2000, p. C1. Retrieved on 30 March 2007.
- ↑ Gordon, Linda (2002). The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America. University of Illinois Press. p. 196. ISBN 0-252-02764-7.
- ↑ Keynes, John Maynard (1946). "Opening remarks: The Galton Lecture". The Eugenics Review. 38 (1): 39–40.
- ↑ Okuefuna, David. "Racism: a history". BBC.co.uk. BBC. Archived from the original on 14 December 2007. Retrieved 12 December 2007.
- ↑ "Awakenings: On Margaret Sanger". Retrieved 2 May 2015.
- 1 2 3 Baker, G.J. (2014). "Christianity and Eugenics: The Place of Religion in the British Eugenics Education Society and the American Eugenics Society, c.1907-1940". Social History of Medicine. Oxford University Press. 27 (2): 281–302. doi:10.1093/shm/hku008. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
- ↑ Mendelsohn, Everett (March–April 2000). "The Eugenic Temptation". Harvard Magazine.
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